N.Y. Local Finance Law 167.00 – Action against municipality; appeals
§ 167.00 Action against municipality; appeals. An appeal from a judgment in an action against a municipality, school district or district corporation on a bond, note or interest bearing coupon, may be taken by any person bound as a privy by such judgment, within sixty days after the service of a copy of the judgment and written notice of the entry thereof by any party upon such person. The appeal may be taken in the name of the party by such person without an order of substitution, upon such person giving the security and serving the notice of appeal required of a party in a civil action, and upon his giving to the party in whose name the appeal is taken an undertaking executed by two sureties in the sum of five hundred dollars and approved as to form and as to the sufficiency of the sureties thereon by a justice of the supreme court. The appeal shall be conducted and determined in the same manner as if taken by the party.
Terms Used In N.Y. Local Finance Law 167.00
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.